Cyclic strain activates the pro-survival Akt protein kinase in bovine aortic smooth muscle cells

Surgery

Volumn 130, Issue 2, 2001, Pages 378-381

  Chen, Alan H ^a,b   Gortler, David S ^a,b   Kilaru, Sashi ^a,b   Araim, Omar ^a,b   Frangos, Spiros G ^a,b   Sumpio, Bauer E ^a,b  

^a YALE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b VA CONNECTICUT HEALTHCARE SYSTEM   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

PLATELET DERIVED GROWTH FACTOR; PROTEIN KINASE; PROTEIN KINASE B; PROTEIN SERINE THREONINE KINASE; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ANIMAL CELL; AORTA; APOPTOSIS; ARTERY WALL; ARTICLE; CELL CULTURE; CELL SURVIVAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENDOTHELIUM CELL; HEART BEAT; NICK END LABELING; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN PHOSPHORYLATION; PULSE PRESSURE; SMOOTH MUSCLE FIBER; STRAIN DIFFERENCE; WESTERN BLOTTING;

EID: 0034896959     PISSN: 00396060     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1067/msy.2001.116668     Document Type: Article

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